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Lamar Cardinals and Lady Cardinals''
The 2019–20 Lamar Cardinals basketball team represented
Lamar University during the
2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 5, 2019. The first tournament was the 2K Sports Classic and the season concluded prematurely on March 12, 2020. The 2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was sch ...
. The Cardinals were led by sixth-year head coach
Tic Price
George "Tic" Price (born November 29, 1955) is an American college basketball coach. He last coached the Lamar Cardinals men's basketball team. From 2002 to 2007, he served as head coach at McNeese State. Prior to that, he served as head coach ...
and played their home games at the
Montagne Center in
Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat, seat of government of Jefferson County, Texas, Jefferson County, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur, Texas, Port Arthur Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area, metropo ...
as members of the
Southland Conference. They finished the season 17–15, 10–10 in Southland play to finish in a three-way tie for sixth place. They defeated
McNeese State
McNeese State University is a public university in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Founded in 1939 as Lake Charles Junior College, it was renamed McNeese Junior College after John McNeese, an early local educator. The present name was adopted in 1970. ...
in the first round of the
Southland tournament and were set to face
Nicholls in the second round before the tournament was cancelled amid the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Previous season
The Cardinals finished conference play with as 12–6 record in a three-way tie with
New Orleans and
Southeastern Louisiana for third place. The team qualified for the
2019 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament
The 2019 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the 2018–19 season in the Southland Conference. The tournament was held at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas from March 13–16, 201 ...
as the fifth seeded team. They won the first-round game against eighth seed
Houston Baptist by a score of 81–79. The season ended when the Cardinals were eliminated in the second round by fourth seed
New Orleans with a score of 72–76.
Roster
Sources:
TV and radio media
All Lamar games will be broadcast on KLVI, also known as News Talk 560.
Live video of all home games (except those picked up by Southland Conference TV agreements) will be streamed on ESPN3.
Schedule and results
Sources:
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Southland Tournament
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, style="text-align:center", Mar 12, 2020
7:30 pm, ESPN+
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, vs. (3) Nicholls
''Second round''
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COVID-19 pandemic''
, style="text-align:center", Leonard E. Merrell Center
Katy, TX
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See also
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2019–20 Lamar Lady Cardinals basketball team
References
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